Archives - 30 October 2017, Monday

Sign the petition and demand PepsiCo takes immediate action to end its role in driving forest destruction. Tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, the Amazon and Africa absorb massive amounts of greenhouse gases and have been one of the most important buffers against rising fossil fue...

The USFWS Conservation and Enforcement Budget would likewise be cut, from around $182 million for 2017 to $166 million in 2018. While this may not seem like a huge reduction, it is being sliced from a budget that is already far too small to do the job. This funding is critical to prot...

This was at least the eighth time that Scott Wiener sat through the same PowerPoint presentation, and he was beginning to wonder what the heck was going on. It was 2009, and Wiener was an environmentalist and LGBT-rights activist who had become president of his neighborhood associatio...

Institutions, both in the private and public sector, always can reap the public relations benefits of doing good, even while still accomplishing their goals. As resources become scarcer, a major way to enhance social performance is through resource conservation, which is being underus...

In 1995, Adrian Piers, a veteran aquaculture consultant, imported a batch of Australian red claw crayfish to the tiny southern African monarchy of Swaziland. He began raising the attractive blue-green crustaceans — the males of which have red stripes on their claws and can weigh a lit...

The 2025 pledge is replacing a previous proposal for Italy to end coal generation by 2030, which was released in May 2017. Italian power grid operator Terna responded to the 2030 plan at the time by saying the country should “increase gas-fired capacity by at least 1GW to guarantee fl...

Arsenic, lead, and cadmium are chemicals you'd expect to find in rat poison and batteries—not baby formula. But on Wednesday, the Clean Label Project , an initiative that tests products for industrial and environmental contaminants and rates them, said it found arsenic in 80 percent o...

Our planet’s carbon dioxide levels are rising at “record-breaking speed.” A new report from the United Nations World Meteorological Organization warns that global carbon dioxide levels rose at the fastest rate ever measured in 2016 — reaching heights unseen in at least 4.5 million yea...

Bebber and fellow ecologist Nathalie Butt of the University of Queensland in Australia decided to look at what would have happened to carbon levels if forests in parks and reserves in South America, Asia and Africa had been cut. In total, these areas cover about 20 percent of all trop...

that runs on virtual tracks – and it just officially hit the streets of Zhuzhou in China ‘s Hunan Province. The Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART) could ease emissions and traffic for a fraction of the cost of building a subway or streetcar system. The 100 percent electric train can ...

Utility franchise rights : Selling power to third parties via new distribution lines infringes on utility franchise rights, the generally exclusive agreement between the utility and a municipality to use public rights-of-way for lines and wires. This prevents the development of larger...

Concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) increased at "record-breaking" speed last year, according to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin released Monday. According to the report , concentrations of CO2 reached 403.3 parts per million...

Goosenecks State Park Overlook at Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management / Flickr Trump to Shrink Utah National Monuments to Allow Drilling, Mining The Trump administration will shrink two national monuments in Utah including the 1.3 million-acre Bea...

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An 11-year-old girl was given a top award after inventing "Tethys," a sensor that detects lead levels in water. Gitanjali Rao of Lone Tree, Colorado won the 2017 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge and a $25,000 prize for the innovation, which she said was inspired by the...

Last week, one of the most senior officials in the Trump administration, Energy Sec. Rick Perry travelled to South Africa to represent the U.S. at the Africa Oil Week. During his time at the Oil Week conference in the coastal city of Cape Town, Perry delivered the keynote address on g...

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This was at least the eighth time that Scott Wiener sat through the same PowerPoint presentation, and he was beginning to wonder what the heck was going on. It was 2009, and Wiener was an environmentalist and LGBT-rights activist who had become president of his neighborhood associatio...

Seemingly everywhere you turn, something or someone is telling you about the amazing technology in the latest smartphones that Apple, Samsung, Google and others have just released. Faster, more powerful, able to take pictures of tall buildings in a single shot. The innovations are oft...

The Halloween of the future is coming, and you’re not going to like it. Climate change is ruining our spookiest holiday. Here are some scary ways the 31st of October might look different going forward: No more bats. That’s right, the little critters could be on their way to extinction...

In some cases, shelters and organizations with incredibly high no-kill numbers may not have reached those numbers with the best of intentions. No-kill shelters often have "managed admissions" — where owner-surrendered pets can only be turned in when there is room and some pets aren't ...

A new report by the NRDC examines how much food is being wasted, where it's going, and why. The results aren't pretty. If you have ever tossed an overripe banana in the trash or dumped a pot of cold coffee down the drain, perhaps you felt some guilt, followed by self-reassurance: 'It'...

The best way to have our buildings use less energy is to insulate them really well. But for a long time, I have also been writing about the problems of insulating with plastic foam, even writing that Polystyrene insulation doesn't belong in green building. There were a number of reaso...

AeroVironment DC fast charger, part of West Coast Electric Highway - Centralia, WA Enlarge Photo The United States Department of Energy has announced a new funding initiative to accelerate the development of what it calls "Extreme Fast Charging" (XFC) systems. In total, the DoE will a...

"Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement," he said in a statement. "Future generations will inherit a much more inho...

Hershey's, Nestle and Mars have not kept their promises when it comes to sourcing conflict-free palm oil. Tomorrow is Halloween, which means that millions of people across North America are stocking up on candy and chocolate bars to hand out to excited trick-or-treaters. These treats ...

The carbon intensity of the global economy is falling faster than ever before, but the pace of change is still not enough to hit global climate targets, new research published by PwC warns today. In 2016 the carbon intensity of the world's economy fell 2.6 per cent, a continuation of ...

“Inadequate funding levels are a major impediment to effective global biodiversity conservation,” note the international team of authors in their earlier report (2012), which examined how to increase conservation efforts in developing nations, where monies are less available for biodi...

South Carolina seems an unlikely spot for the global offshore wind industry to gain a showcase foothold in the U.S. After all, the state is among several Atlantic coast states that have been dragging their feet on offshore wind development. However, South Carolina’s Clemson University...